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Kerry McDonald

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  • The Solution to Pandemic Learning Loss Is Less Schooling, Not More

    The Solution to Pandemic Learning Loss Is Less Schooling, Not More0

    The latest data dump from the Nation’s Report Card reveals declining academic performance among US students. As with previous releases showing the same trend, especially over the past three years, the solution proposed by many education reformers and advocates is to double-down on the amount of schooling and school-like activities students get.  “The greatest challenge

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  • Gallup Poll Reveals Americans’ Plummeting Confidence in Public Schools

    Gallup Poll Reveals Americans’ Plummeting Confidence in Public Schools2

    Americans have soured on public schools. That’s the takeaway from Gallup polling results released earlier this month showing that Americans’ confidence in public schools is at a low point, with only 26 percent of respondents indicating a “Great deal/Fair amount” of confidence in that institution. Indeed, public schools join three other institutions that are also at or tied with

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  • A Rural, Waldorf Microschool Gets Shut Down By State Regulators

    A Rural, Waldorf Microschool Gets Shut Down By State Regulators2

    Ariel Maguire gathered together with other moms in her rural area of the Big Island of Hawaii to create a child-centered educational solution for local families. It was late 2021 and the parents realized that nearly two years of pandemic policies had left their kids behind both academically and socially. There weren’t a lot of

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  • In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted

    In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted1

    The K-12 district schools I went to while growing up in a Boston suburb look nearly the same today as they did when I attended them in the 1980s and 90s, when they also looked quite similar to how they did when my father attended those same schools in the 1950s and 60s. Sure, there

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